Holder for phonograph-records.



B. BARLOW. HOLDER FOR PHONOGRAF'HV RECORDS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 15, 1911 Lgfm Patented Feb. 5, 1918.

JOI-IN B. BARLOW, OFWALKER' TOWNSHIP, MICHIGAN.

HOLDER FOR. PHONO'GRAPH-RECORDS.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, JOHN B. BARLow, a Citizen of the United Sta-tes, residing in `Walker township, in the county of Kent and State 0f Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Holders for Phono graph-Records, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention. relates to holders for phonograph records; and its object is to provide a simple device of that character wherein such records may be securely kept; and further, such a device whose bound leaves may be kept in alinement.

These objects are attained by, and the invention finds preferable embodiment in, the structure hereinafter described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a phonograph record holder, opened;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view of part of the same taken on a plane corresponding to line A-B of Fig. 1 and enlarged;

Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of part of one of the bases or leaves, and enlarged; and

Fig. 4 is like view of a modiiied construction.

The phonograph records 1 are removably held in the holder by studs 2 carried by and projecting from the faces of the bases or leaves 3. These studs are adapted to enter the central orilices 4 of the records. thus to retain them in position. Preferably these studs are laterally compressible and elastic so as to yieldingly fit in and engage the sides of said orifices. This effect is attained in the preferable construction shown, by forming the studs of oppositely disposed halves or members 5, 6. of spring metal and secured as by rivets 7 to the under side of the bases or leaves, and having portions 8, 9, extending through openings 10 in the bases to which they are secured, and thence upwardly through the records orifices. In this construction the outer sides of the spring members diverge correlatively, outwardly from the base, as particularly shown at 11 in Fig. 2, so that by removing the record from such members, they must be pressed toward each other; the outer sides of these members then converge, as particularly shown at 12 in said ligure, so that the records orifice may be readily passed over and around the extremi ties of the members and pressed down on the base.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led March 15, 1917.

Patented Feb. 5, 1913.. se1-ia1 No. 155,062.

The bases may be bound together as leaves in a book, as shown in Fig. 1.

In turning the leaves over there is necessarily some interrelative silding movement toward and away from the binding edge of the leaves. On the under side of the leaves I provide slots 13 extending at right angles to the binding edge: in order to keep the leaves in alinement, and at the same time permit such sliding movement, the outer ends of the spring members extend above the record held thereby and into these slots in the adjacent leaf above, as particularly shown in Fig. 2.

The body portions 14 of the spring members may be seated in recesses l5 in the under sides of the leaves, as shown in Fig 3, the space between their shoulders 16 defining the slot 13 aforesaid: or as shown in Fig. 4, these body portions may be positioned at right angles to the slot 13.

To assist in the ready placing of the stud in the records orifice, (the stud being hid from view by the record itself) I provide on the face of the base or leaf certain markings arcuately disposed concentrically with the stud, as the circles 17, 18.

Filler pieces 19 should be provided between the leaves at their binding edge. and also other such pieces 20 adapted to detachably fit over the studs (to be removed when records take their place), all being the thickness of the records.

The leaves may have index tabs suitably numbered as shown, and the leaves may display printed or written matter descriptive of the records.

It will be seen that inasmuch as the spring members extend through the records, their diverging portions 11 also extending therethrough, such diver-ging portions press obliquely on the record at the upper end of the orifice, so as to press the record downwardly on the base.

I claim:

1. In a device of the character described; a base; a stud carried by the base and adapt-- ed to enter the central orifice of a phonograph record and hold said record on the base; the base having a marking arcuately disposed concentrically with the stud.

2. In a device of the character described; a base having` an bpening therethrough; a stud comprisingoppositely disposed spring members secured to the under side of the base and having portions extending through said opening and adapted to enter the central orifice of a phonograph record on the upper side of the base and yieldingly engage said orifioes sides to hold said record on the hase.

3. In a device of the character described; a plurality of leaves hound together' at one edge, the leaves having slots extending at right angles to said edge; studs carried by the leaves and adapted to enter the central oriice of phonograph records to hold said records and extending beyond said record and into the slot in the adjacent leaf in the closed position of the leaves.

4c. In adevice of the character described;

a plurality of leaves bound together at one edge, the leaves having slots extending at right angles to said edge studs comprising oppositely disposed spring members secured to the under sides of the leaves and having f portions extending through the leaves to which they are thus secured and adapted to enter andvextend through the central orifice K JOHN B. BABLOW.

VGopies of this patentv may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner vof Patents, Washington, D. C. 

